Defining the almost-entropic regions by algebraic inequalities (Q2363732)

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Defining the almost-entropic regions by algebraic inequalities
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    Defining the almost-entropic regions by algebraic inequalities (English)
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    26 July 2017
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    Summary: We study the definability of the almost-entropic regions by finite lists of algebraic inequalities. First, we study linear information inequalities and polyhedrality, we present a proof of a theorem of Matus, which claims that the almost-entropic regions are not polyhedral. Then, we study polynomial inequalities and semialgebraicity, we show that the semialgebracity of the almost-entropic regions is something that depends on the essentially conditionality of a certain class of conditional information inequalities. Those results suggest that the almost-entropic regions are not semialgebraic. We conjecture that those regions are not decidable.
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    entropic regions
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    entropic vectors
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    entropy
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    information inequalities
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    polyhedrality
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    Shannon inequalities
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    algebraic inequalities
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    polynomial inequalities
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    semialgebraicity
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